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Zi-Yang Rao

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2026

The Geometric Nature and a Free Proxy for Flow-Matching Uncertainty

This work provides a geometric interpretation of FM uncertainty in the velocity field, showing that uncertainty manifests as deviation from an ideal affine-isotropic contraction field, and introduces denoising acceleration ( accel), a highly-generalizable and cost-free uncertainty proxy that measures the bending of the...

Zi-Yang Rao, Yi-Ren Zhao, Wei-Yu Guo et al. · 0 citations
#robotics Preprint Jul 2026

Source-Lifted Flow Matching for Intervenable Multimodal Imitation

Flow-matching policies are promising for imitation learning because they model complex multimodal action distributions. However, their stochasticity is largely passive: repeated sampling may yield diverse behaviors, but users cannot directly choose among valid continuations from the same state. We propose Source-Lifted...

He Zhang, Ying Sun, Pengteng Li et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Jul 2026

Towards Mechanistically Understanding Why Memorized Knowledge Fails to Generalize in Large Language Model Finetuning

Self-patching identifies activation locations where relocating representations substantially improves failed generalization cases and design a simple heuristic strategy which recovers 58--75\% of the oracle headroom in generalization failure.

Lu Dai, Ziyang Rao, Yili Wang et al. · 1 citation
Preprint Aug 2026

How Should Vision-Language-Action Models Use Proprioceptive State?

Five representative interfaces are implemented -- discrete state prompt, VLM prefix, action prefix, state expert, and feature modulation -- under matched implementation details, and evaluated on 45 atomic tasks spanning three task families plus 20 composite tasks.

Yiren Zhao, Ziyang Chen, Zi-Yang Rao et al. · 0 citations

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